History of films

  • Phenakistiscope was introduced

    Phenakistiscope was introduced
    a cardboard disc with slots around the edge and drawings between the slots
  • Zoetrope was invented

    Zoetrope was invented
    like the Phenakistiscope but cyndrical
  • daguerreotype

    daguerreotype
    first ever successful camera invented by Louis Daguerre
  • Leland Stanford

    Leland Stanford
    made a bet as govener of california for 25,000 dollars that horses feet come all up like it glides on air 12 cameras were set by string so that when the horse ran it would trigger all the cameras and show what happend. he was right and won the bet.
  • Eadward Muybridge invented zoopraxiscope

    Eadward Muybridge invented zoopraxiscope
    silhouette images on a large glass glass disc
  • George Eastman introduced the first hand-held box camera

    George Eastman introduced the first hand-held box camera
    his first camera the Kodak was sold in 1888 and was cheep
  • Kinetoscope invented

    Kinetoscope invented
    it was invented by W.K.L Dickson and the person who built it was Thomas Edison.
  • Black maria 'Fred Otts Sneeze'

    Black maria 'Fred Otts Sneeze'
  • First kinetoscope parlor opened in New York

    First kinetoscope parlor opened in New York
  • The Lumiere brothers have the world’s first public film screening

    The Lumiere brothers have the world’s first public film screening
  • A Trip to The Moon is released

    A Trip to The Moon is released
    first movie to shoot the moon in the eye. and to shhow what they think the moon looked like.
  • The Great Train Robbery is filmed

    The Great Train Robbery is filmed
    first film that was made with a storyline
  • nickelodeon theater

    nickelodeon theater
    it was a place where you could watch short films in 1905
  • The Broken Oath

    first movie to have credits it stared in 1910